Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas

Moss, Dana M.; Michaelsen, Marcus; Kennedy, Gillian

doi:10.1111/glob.12372

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“…Such hostile rhetoric is, however, just one end of a much broader spectrum of transnational repression. Authoritarian regimes have developed a sizable toolbox of strategies and practices to pursue their challengers and silence critique beyond their own borders, which includes assassinations, assaults, disappearances, renditions and unlawful deportations, abuse of Interpol's system of "red notices", digital threats, spyware, passport and document control, and coercion by proxy (Moss et al 2022;Schenkkan and Linzer 2021;Tsourapas 2021).…”

Section: Authoritarians and Their (Transnational) Subjects: An Overviewmentioning

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Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora

Wackenhut

Orjuela

2023

Eur Polit Sci

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Recent scholarship on diaspora engagement and transnational repression has investigated how authoritarian regimes seek to engage, govern and control their diasporas. Recognizing that diasporas are diverse and that homeland states thus devise different strategies in relation to different groups, this research has—to a large extent—focused on the varied positions held by regime supporters and dissidents. Inter-generational differences, however, have not been studied in this context. Drawing on established frameworks theorizing extraterritorial authoritarian practices, this article explores the ways in which second-generation diaspora—or diaspora youth—is either included as subjects, patriots and clients, or excluded as outlaws and traitors by authoritarian regimes. Drawing on the literature on transnationalism and second-generation migrants, and using examples from empirical cases, we argue that the skills, resources and multi-sited embeddedness of the second-generation diaspora can make them particularly interesting targets for transnational engagement—or repression. We draw attention to specific strategies for mobilizing the support of diaspora youth, but also note that some techniques to control or repress extraterritorial subjects are less efficacious in relation to this generation.

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Section: Authoritarians and Their (Transnational) Subjects: An Overviewmentioning

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Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora

Wackenhut

Orjuela

2023

Eur Polit Sci

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“…This study also discusses the resistance of educators who have moved to another country, while noting that emigrants are not entirely free from repression. The country of origin could control through citizenship and mobility regulations, continued surveillance, harassment of emigrants or their family members who have remained behind, or even violence (Moss et al, 2022). Thus, quiet resistance is commonplace even for overseas dissidents.…”

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“…Focusing on the often overlooked ‘quieter’ resistance, I describe how former educators who have left Hong Kong continue to resist. Understanding quiet resistance is especially important when the reach of authoritarianism extends national borders (Moss et al, 2022). Thus, whether at home or overseas,.…”

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Winning quietly: Hong Kong educators’ resistance to National Security Education

Lui

2023

The Sociological Review

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This study highlights the role of educators in the resistance to Hong Kong’s National Security Education (NSE) amidst waves of political repression in the wake of the anti-extradition movement of 2019–2020. Education reforms, teacher training and student assessment used to cultivate students’ creativity, critical thinking and independent thinking skills. NSE, which emphasises China’s perspective of knowledge construction, has contradicted long-standing pedagogies of teaching and learning. The research questions are: How do politically liberal educators navigate these changes? Do they conform and/or resist? Based on the study of social media and interviews with 22 politically liberal former and current teachers, school librarians, educators in public organisations and professors of teacher training programmes, I find that beneath the public transcripts of compliance in schools, there is a repertoire of ‘winning quietly’ among educators in Hong Kong by training students’ ‘civil society competence’ using less politically sensitive issues, working perfunctorily on NSE-related tasks, using metaphors, jokes and prayers to convey hidden messages, and allowing students to engage in resistance. Classrooms and private online groups remain the third space for atomised resistance. Outside Hong Kong, educators openly counter the ideological influence under NSE both individually and collectively, enabling an alternative to NSE that can reach students in Hong Kong. This study illuminates that authoritarian governments never fully control the stage, and it is too soon to tell whether their attempts to create obedient citizens will prevail.

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“…Repression also changes transnationally because of barriers erected by sovereignty and reduced state capacity abroad. Nonetheless, autocracies adapt to such challenges and innovate tactics like digital methods mentioned above, or punishment of exiled dissidents' families at home to pressure the dissident abroad (Moss et al, 2022).…”

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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

Dukalskis,

Furstenberg,

Hellmeier

et al. 2023

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian states to control and coerce their populations abroad. This article builds on existing research by investigating the domestic determinants of transnational repression. It argues that an increase in domestic repression is likely to lead to a subsequent increase in transnational repression because crackdowns at home drive dissent abroad and incentivize the state to extend its repressive gaze beyond its borders. To evaluate its arguments, the article draws on a database of approximately 1200 cases in which authoritarian states around the world threatened, attacked, extradited, abducted, or assassinated their own citizens abroad between 1991 and 2019. Offering a first quantitative test of domestic drivers of transnational repression, using multivariate regression analysis, the paper finds that as repression intensifies domestically, the likelihood of that state subsequently escalating its transnational repression also increases substantively.

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Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas

Cited by 16 publications

References 63 publications

Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora

Engaging the next generation: authoritarian regimes and their young diaspora

Winning quietly: Hong Kong educators’ resistance to National Security Education

The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

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